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  Subject: Announcements
PD4ML   PostPosted: 08 Jan 2010, 13:24 
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  Subject: PD4ML for Java v360b2 released
PD4ML   PostPosted: 13 Jan 2010, 17:54 
New in PD4ML v360b2:
  • Dynamic font substitution logic (auto-switch to another TTF font if the current one cannot display all content glyphs)
    Starting with the version, the code like the following 
    <font face="Arial">
欢迎<br>
歡迎<br>
Καλοσωρίσατε<br>
اهلا وسهلا<br>
Добро пожаловать<br>
</font>
    produces correct output, despite the fact Arial font has no Chinese glyphs. In the case PD4ML looks for a similar font which has the missing characters. Of course the substitution font must be among the fonts configured for TTF embedding.
  • Page-oriented address space for absolutely positioned elements.
    Now explicit page breaks in regular flow content do not impact absolute positioned elements.
  • Basic HTTP authentication support.
    The code 
    Map m = new HashMap();
m.put(PD4Constants.PD4ML_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION, "login:password");
pd4ml.setDynamicParams(m);
    forces PD4ML to perform implicit basic HTTP authentication with given credentials.
  • A possibility to define bottom and top borders for table breaks.

    Example: 
    TR { page-break-inside: avoid; 
pd4ml-page-break-border-top: 1 solid red; 
pd4ml-page-break-border-bottom: 1 solid blue; }

  • A possibility to limit resource location referencing scope and to disable PDF attachments
    Map m = new HashMap();
m.put(PD4Constants.PD4ML_DISABLE_EXTERNAL_ATTACHMENTS, "true");
m.put(PD4Constants.PD4ML_ALLOWED_RESOURCE_LOCATION, "http://server/webapp");
pd4ml.setDynamicParams(m);
  • JSP taglib mapping of PD4ML.setDynamicParams() 
    <pd4ml:transform screenWidth="800"  ...>
   <pd4ml:parameters>
      <pd4ml:parameter key="pd4ml.print.dialog.popup" value="true"/>
   </pd4ml:parameters>
...
</pd4ml:transform>
  • Blank page suppress logic
  • MIME decoder for Lotus Notes attachments
  • Fixed bugs:
    • - relative image references from stylesheet use document location instead of the stylesheel location as docbase
    • - relative hyperlinks point to local filesystem instead of locations related to document's URL
    • - possible 1-2px gap between header/footer and page edge.
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  Subject: Re: Announcements
PD4ML   PostPosted: 09 Feb 2010, 13:44 
New in PD4ML v360b3:
  • Tooltips from TITLE attributes.
    The code
    Map m = new HashMap();
m.put(PD4Constants.PD4ML_GENERATE_TOOLTIPS, "true");
pd4ml.setDynamicParams(m);
    forces PD4ML to convert TITLE attribute values (<span TITLE="Tooltip text">Text</span>) into PDF annotations, visually appear as tooltips.

  • New PD4Util class and its utility methods allow to index a font directory and generate pd4fonts.properties on-a-fly from your application.
    /**
 * scan font directory and generate pd4fonts.properties 
 * @param fontsPath fonts directory path
 * @param fontConfigFileLocation a target directory to store pd4fonts.properties. If null, the file is stored in fontsPath.  
 * @throws IOException
 */
public static void generateFontPropertiesFile(String fontsPath,
		String fontConfigFileLocation) throws IOException;
    
/**
 * scan font directory, generate pd4fonts.properties and output it to the given OutputStream.
 * @param fontsPath font directory path
 * @param bos pd4fonts.properties data output stream
 * @throws IOException
 */
public static void generateFontPropertiesFile(String fontsPath,
			BufferedOutputStream bos) throws IOException;
  • Fixed bug: Some PNG images may cause resulting document format corruption
    In some rare cases an attempt to compress image data (as a rule it is PNG images with tiny pixel dimensions) results compressed data size greater than the original size. Before the fix PD4ML erroneously cut the data.
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  Subject: Re: Announcements
PD4ML   PostPosted: 23 Feb 2010, 14:49 
New in PD4ML v360 (final release, Java):
  • Pd4Cmd command-line HTML-to-PDF converter. The new tool (a successor of PD4Php) is an integral part of PD4ML libraries now. It offers an access to virtually all PD4ML API features from command-line/batch scenarios.

  • Fixed bugs:
    • Invalid text background inheritance. Text background color, inherited from parent block elements, clashed with the block element background images.
    • MS-Office-specific 'windowtext' and 'window' color names ignored. Now they are set to black and white correspondingly.
    • No table cell background if the cell contains <br> tag only. In some situations it is more preferable to use <br> instead of &nbsp; as empty cell filler. The following code revealed the problem.
      <table border=1>
<tr><td style="background-color: tomato; width: 40; height: 40"><BR></td></tr>
</table>
    • Minor text flow issues
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  Subject: PD4ML Licensing Term Changes
PD4ML   PostPosted: 29 Apr 2010, 14:39 
Brief summary of planned PD4ML license term changes:
http://pd4ml.com/newlic.htm
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